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A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage (vice.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Reddit user beaston02 was determined to find the true ceiling of Amazon's cloud storage plan, which was killed off in June. He decided to push its limits with a petabyte of porn. For reference, a petabyte is one million gigabytes. "It is nearly entirely porn," he told me in a Reddit message. "Ever since I got into computers, I found myself learning more, and faster when it was something more interesting. Call me crazy, but women interest me more than most other things on the internet and there is a huge amount of data being created daily, so it was a good fit for the project." He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes. How long would it take one to consume 1.8 petabytes of porn? 1.8 petabytes is about 23.4 years of HD-TV video, but webcam streams are nowhere near that quality. A few good folks crunched the numbers: 720p is about two gigabytes per hour, and at 900,000 hours, that's 102 years of straight calendar time. If the videos are even lower quality, say, 480p, that's around 0.7 gigabytes per hour, or 293 years and six months.
or as a /. user would call it, a good Tuesday night.
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Well I guess they did say have goals in life.
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Gee, I would need to get my glasses checked.
Imagine a grave stone that instead of an eternal flame there is an eternal stream of porn on a small display. The location may be problematic for the viewer to fully enjoy though.
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...is a LOT of hand lotion.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Pied Piper will compress that down big time so that real hit is way less.
That's so much porn you can't even possibly look at most of it. If you wanted to test Amazon's "unlimited' storage, why not just randomly generate various files. You could probably have a computer make shitty modern art paintings much faster than you could curate a 1 petabyte porn collection, and you still get to test out how much you can store on Amazon's cloud storage service before they pull the plug. And when they invariably do, you won't lose your porn collection.
All this does is make me realize there's a lot of porn I will never see. And that makes me sad.
Whether it's unlimited data, unlimited backups, unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks- this is why we can't have nice things. Regardless of motive, people like this ruin for the rest of us.
"But not nearly as interesting as the assorted women parts I have archived in my basement freezer," he continued.
I could do it in 185 days with my Internet connection (1 Gb/s upload speed). That said, he might not having to done it from his home connection. He could fire up a few AWS instances and rip directly from pornhub from there.
Only disgusting whores do it. They are not sexy in any way, in the vast majority of cases. Only disgusting. The females you would *want* to see naked never would do such things (in public).
Dude, we get it, only gay male porn for you!
'In unrelated news, Amazon announces a new adult streaming service, featuring over 200 million gigabytes of content.'
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Someone has already mentioned the tragedy of this ruining it for other people and in a way I agree, but since he did it using the remainder of the unlimited storage period, I'm not going to feel bad about it either. This dude is a fucking hero even just for making the world's most obvious joke about Amazon's Cloud storage into a reality.
But it's a damned shame that the unlimited storage plans are going away because I really did have about 6TB of actual personal data (mostly photos, which are still unlimited for Prime subscribers anyway) on my account and the amazing thing about Amazon as opposed to every other big cloud service is that they never, ever seemed to run out of upstream bandwidth. I took a 4TB drive to my server colo and sent data to Cloud Drive. Amazon took it at the physical speed of the hard disk. Compared to Google or Carbonite or Backblaze, where data transfer throttles seem to be the name of the game, the idea that Amazon will take THAT MUCH data in so short a period of time is more impressive to me than just having the disk space to store it.
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How much is that in litres of sperm?
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Only disgusting whores do it. They are not sexy in any way, in the vast majority of cases. Only disgusting. The females you would *want* to see naked never would do such things (in public).
You must watch a lot of porn to be able to speak with authority about what the "vast majority" looks like.
Nope, no sig